On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:25 PM drymer <drymer@autistici.org> wrote:

> Hi
> I didn't explain myself. It inserts four *, as it didn't find the
> entity. I'm using emacs 24.5.3 and org-mode 8.34, which is the maint
> branch. I've also tried with plain emacs without configuration.
>

Those emacs and org versions are fine.

It could be one of two things:
1. You forgot to evaluate

    (advice-add 'org-self-insert-command :around
#'modi/org-insert-org-entity-maybe)

    What do you see when you do C-h f org-self-insert-command after
evaluating that whole code block?

I see

org-self-insert-command is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
`org.el'.

(org-self-insert-command N)

For more information check the manuals.

:before-until advice: ‘modi/org-insert-org-entity-maybe’

Like ‘self-insert-command’, use overwrite-mode for whitespace in tables.
If the cursor is in a table looking at whitespace, the whitespace is
overwritten, and the table is not marked as requiring realignment.

The ":before-until advice: ‘modi/org-insert-org-entity-maybe’" part in
there is important. Do you see the same?

2. If from above you see org-self-insert-command being advised correctly,
then can you let me know what you get when you do

M-: (modi/org-entity-get-name "*")

You should get "ast" in return when you evaluate that.

Also I am confused why you cannot recreate what I see in emacs -Q. Are you
explicitly using "emacs -Q"? Note that that Q is capital (not emacs -q).
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Kaushal Modi